3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
